Bend Sinister
Filled with veiled puns and outrageous wordplay, this work is a haunting narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state.
Filled with veiled puns and outrageous wordplay, this work is a haunting narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307787880 (0307787885)
Publish date: February 16th 2011
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Iniziamo col dire che Un mondo sinistro non è un romanzo semplice. Non è un romanzo facile da leggere e da interpretare perché Nabokov usa volutamente uno stile confusionario (si passa dalla terza alla seconda alla prima persona) abbinato a un linguaggio che cambia in continuazione (tedesco; un idio...
This is pretty great overall. It appears to be a parody of the Orwell, Huxley, Koestler “topical trash” that Nabokov supposedly despised. Now, I am a fan of all that stuff, but this is still pretty dead on. Dead on both in mocking such literature and also in making the very same point as that lit...
It's interesting to compare Bend Sinister with 1984. (Nabokov didn't much like Orwell, and thought he was a hack). Orwell's take on totalitarianism, is, roughly, that it's evil. Nabokov's is more that it's terminally stupid. Even when the rulers of the State would actually prefer to get things right...
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